Clothes-line support.



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WILLIAM MACK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed May 24, 1917. Serial No. 170,649.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILMAM MACK, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Man hattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-LineSupport, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to clothes lines of the endless type which rideover near and distant pulley supports.

The invention has for its general objects to provide an improved devicefor supporting the outer extremity of the endless line, so that bothlengths of the line can be used for hanging clothes, the said linesupport being of comparatively simple and inexpensive construction,reliable and efficient in use, and so designed that the clothes on theline can readily pass in either direction around the distant pulley.

I'Vith such objects in view, and others which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth withparticularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of theinvention and wherein similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views,

Figure l is a side view of the device mounted on a pole;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line as, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the clothes line support A is shown attachedto a pole B and fastened by a suitable brace 1.

The device A comprises upper and lower plates 2 and 8 which are fastenedtogether by bolts or equivalent means 4:, and between these plates is acentral wall 5 to hold the plates spaced apart. Behind the wall 5 is apulley or roller 6, which turns on a vertical axis 7 carried by theupper and lower plates. Around the pulley passes the clothes line 8, towhich articles are attached in the usual manner by clothes pins 9. Onthe bottom plate and at opposite sides of the device is a guide trackformed by upwardly inclined portions 10 and a curved connecting portion11, which latter lies behind and approximately concentric with thepulley 6.

The straight inclined portions 11 of the track are disposed in front ofthe pulley. This track is approximately entirely above the clothes line,which latter runs over the top edge of plates 12 in the end of thedevice away from the pole B. The clothes line sags from these plates 12,and the latter serve to maintain the portion of the clothes line thatpasses around the pulley 6 in a fixed plane. The clothes pins in passinginto the device A strike the downwardly deflected extremities 10 of thetracks 10, and the clothes pins ride partly up the tracks 10 and areturned over thereby so that the heads will extend downwardly as theypass around the pulley, the articles C on the line being folded over thetrack portions 10 and 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 9. The plates 12 havesurfaces 13 which incline upwardly and outwardly from the bottom plate3, so that the heads of the inverted clothes pins will ride upwardly onthese inclined surfaces and thereby the clothes pins are returned toupright position as they pass away from the device A. In this manner theclothes pins can turn freely around the drum or pulley 6 with the lengthof the clothes pin parallel therewith and in contact with thecircumference thereof. The device acts on the clothes pins and articlesin the same manner, no matter in which direction the clothes line ismoved, and the device is so designed that it does not loosen or detachthe clothes pins.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with theaccompanying" drawing, the advantages of the construction and method ofoperation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art towhich the invention appertains, and while I have described the principleof operation, together with the device which I now consider to be thebest embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the deviceshown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made whendesired as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A clothes line supporter comprising a supporting structure and apulley thereon, a clothes line, means for maintaining the clothes lineapproximately in a predetermined plane on the pulley, a track inclinedupwardly toward the pulley in a position above the said plane, and thetrack extending around the pulley in concentric and spaced relationthereto, whereby the clothes pins on the line are caused to be invertedby the track, and means for turning the clothes pins upright afterpassing the pulley. v

2. A device of the class described coni prising a supporting structure,va pulley thereon, a track comprising portions inclined upwardly towardthe pulley and a curved connecting portion .QXtGllCllll, aroundvthepulley, and inclined surfaces extending upwardly and outwardly away fromthe pulley.

v A device of the classdescrihed comprising connected upper and, lowerplates, pulley mounted between the plates, a

track having parallel portions inclined upwardly toward the pulley and aconnecting curved portion concentric with the pulley, and inclinedplates at the end of each track and inclined upwardly in the oppositedirection therefrom and away from the pulley.

l. A clothes line supporter comprising a supporting structure, a pulleythereon, a clothes line passing around the pulley, and means for turningthe clothes pins upside down before reaching the pulley andirestoringthe Clothespins to normal position after passing the pulley, said pulleybeing of cylindrical form, whereby the clothes pins can lie parallelwith the ,aXis of the pulley as they pass around the same.

TVILLIAM MACK.

Copies of this patent may bevobtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

